Chapter TwoAs the ferry was steaming towards Bordeaux, Arletta thought this was the most exciting thing that had ever happened to her.
She had had a dozen arguments with Jane before she finally capitulated and agreed that Arletta should go to France.
“Remember, dearest Jane,” she said over and over again, “that I can come home if things do not go right for it does not matter to me if I don’t have a reference as it would have to you.”
Jane saw the logic of this.
At the same time she was desperately afraid that Arletta, innocent and completely without knowledge of the world, would find herself in difficulties that she would not be able to cope with.
But she was reassured by everything that Lady Langley had told her about the Duc de Sauterre and also, as Arletta herself had said, she cou
